Dina is a young Russian filmmaker working on a film about Stalinist repressions and the massive intergenerational trauma they caused that continues to resonate in modern-day Russia. Together with her friend Johan, a German sound designer whose grandfather went missing in the USSR during the Second World War, she embarks on a journey to the former Soviet labour camps. Almost deserted, the abandoned lands of Gulag still bear traces of those who perished there. Although this trip becomes somewhat therapeutic for the two of them, it also puts their relationship to the test.

Infantile, carried away, gushing with ideas and designs, Ivan is an animator and a center of attraction for very different people. This evening, his friends will gather in the apartment of Ivan's ex-wife, Marina, to tell him for now: Ivan will emigrate to Canada forever, believing that he will find funding there for his main project. But what does the hero of Toma Selivanova really run from and with what feelings do those who remain?

A grandmother who is confined to the bed, a devout mother, and a young daughter live as one family in a Moscow suburb. Three parallel lives flow next to each other in the cold space of an eternal winter.